Technical Solution Lead, Simple Machines

• Experience with at least one JVM-based language (Scala, Java, Kotlin, Clojure)
• Experience with data pipelines such as Spark and Kafka
• You have a deep understanding of best practice patterns for good application architecture and a track record of leadership to apply these patterns
• Experience documenting and presenting system designs and architectures to team members and senior stakeholders
• Experience understanding and documenting business problems and discussing solutions with senior stakeholders
• Experience with multiple database paradigms - relational, document, key-value
• Experience with one or more Cloud services

Desirable

• Simple Machines is looking to hire a Technical Lead to join our amazing team. This is a full-time role based in London. This is a consultant engineering role working on the build of machine learning platforms and products used by global brands
• The project you’ll work on will be incredibly exciting, working with a globally distributed, high performance engineering team working on building a large-scale machine learning platform for a global telecommunications company
• This is a unique opportunity to work with a strong team who have worked for global product, technology, and consulting companies including Facebook, PayPal, Google, Atlassian, Thoughtworks, and many others
• As a Technical Lead you will design and implement intricate cloud-native systems comprising of backend webservers, streaming applications, data pipelines, and web frontends to drive a machine learning based marketing system
• You will be responsible for owning initiatives and should be comfortable navigating a range of code bases including front-end React, JVM based backends and Spark data pipelines
• We are looking for flexible ‘T’ shaped candidates who along with technical tasks are happy to get involved with other stages of the development lifecycle, such as requirements gathering, design and architecture, testing and deployment. They will also help mentor the other
• You’ll work directly with stakeholders and other team members to collaborate on designing and developing solutions across the stack
• The project involves Kotlin on the back-end, TypeScript/React on the front-end, and Python/Scala for data processing with Kafka and Spark. However, Simple Machines has many projects spanning a diverse range of technologies
• Typical daily activities would include work such as:
• Coding new features across the stack in our solution
• Reviewing colleagues PRs, influencing best practices
• Documenting design and architecture
• Liaising with business stakeholders on requirements, issues or proposals
• Collaborating with our development team and diverse stakeholder group to shape technical solutions